This tale is as mind-blowing as any controlled substance and as affecting as a glimpse into a stranger’s soul. As they struggle to discover whether they are meant to help humanity or destroy it, Sturgeon explores questions of power and morality, individuality and belonging, with suspense, pathos, and a lyricism rarely seen in science fiction. Together, they may represent the next step in evolution-or the final chapter in the history of the human race. As the protagonists of More Than Human struggle to find out who they are and whether they are meant to help humanity or destroy it, Theodore Sturgeon. There’s Baby, who invented an antigravity engine while still in the cradle, and Gerry, who has everything it takes to run the world except for a conscience. There’s Lone, the simpleton who can hear other people’s thoughts Janie, who moves things without touching them and the teleporting twins, who can travel ten feet or ten miles. It is an expansion of an early novelette titled Baby is Three, published in 1952 (a work the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America placed into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, honoring SFF. Theres a problem with this new gestalt being. In this genre-bending novel, among the first to have launched science fiction into literature, a group of remarkable social outcasts band together for survival and discover that their combined powers render them superhuman. More than Human is definitely part of the good 10 percent, or even the best one percent deservedly, it is probably Sturgeon’s best-known work.
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